Chuck Bryant

Because there's deer ticks all over the woods.

Sure, there definitely are.

I don't know if deer ticks will latch onto a dog.

It's entirely possible they won't since there's such a differentiation between dog ticks and deer ticks.

But I do know that dog ticks don't transmit Lyme.

Well, I think we should talk about...

My favorite thing from the ticks episode, and this is one I will lay on people from time to time, is remember how ticks attach themselves?

Sure.

They just hang out on blades of grass and things and just snap their little claws constantly just waiting for something to pass by that they can latch on to.

Right.

They sense the CO2 of the mammal that's walking past them.

So interesting.

And, Chuck, one thing I read is that somehow the lime –

Lyme-infected ticks, because they're infected themselves.

Lyme resides in small mammals and rodents as a reservoir.

They're infected, but they don't have symptoms.

Ticks get infected with this stuff, and they're just passing it along.

It's not like they're the ultimate source of Lyme disease.

No, ticks are misunderstood.

They're really great.